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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"lifestyle behaviours"”.
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A formative assessment of nurses' lifestyle behaviours and health status
… active, yet highly sedentary. Sedentary behaviours such as occupational sitting, leisure-time sitting and television (TV) viewing may be associated with overweight and obesity independent of physical activity. Aim: The primary aim of this mini-dissertation was to determine the health …
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Lifestyle behaviours and beliefs of pregnant women with gestational diabetes: a longitudinal follow-up study
… developing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) later in life. Lifestyle management through a healthy diet and physical activity both during and after a GDM pregnancy is the first line treatment option in GDM management and for delaying the onset of T2DM. The research for this Master thesis had two main aims: …
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Subjective Age, Lifestyle Behaviours and Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
… younger or old an individual feels) as well as lifestyle behaviours are associated with cognitive functioning in older adults. Method: Data from two waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing were used. Analysis was conducted at wave four (2008/2009), wave seven (2012/2015) and …
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Exploring the impact of lifestyle and physical fitness on childhood overweight and obesity prevention in schoolchildren: a quasi-experimental study assessing the effectiveness of a multimodal intervention in the province of Cádiz. The PREVIENE-CÁDIZ Study
… approaches aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles and enhancing physical fitness to prevent overweight and obesity among 8 to 9-year-old schoolchildren of the province of Cadiz. The research encompasses three main studies conducted in the province of Cadiz, Spain, employing a …
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Determinants of Childhood Obesity in the UK: A Systematic Literature Review
… determinants, socioeconomic inequality, lifestyle behaviours, food environment and recreational spaces, and psychosocial influences. Findings indicate that obesity in children emerges from complex interactions between inherent predispositions, such as genetic susceptibility and early-life …
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Health of the older worker in Ireland - occupational physical and psychosocial factors in the autumn of work life
… between job characteristics and positive lifestyle behaviours and further, job characteristics and blood pressure for males and females 50-69 years (n=2,047). Finally, the Cork & Kerry Study investigated the physical effects of manual work and reported functional limitations/disabilities …
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices related to lifestyle factors among childbearing women in the West Coast/Winelands Health District
… her chances of having a normal healthy child. Lifestyle behaviours, such as cigarette smoking, nutrition and the use of alcohol, play an important role in determining the growth of the fetus. The aim of this study was to establish the knowledge, attitudes and practices related to lifestyle …
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A goal setting approach to a healthy lifestyle in adolescent females
Obesity and overweight, caused by unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as physical inactivity and an unbalanced diet, contribute to a multitude of problems for both individuals and the community. The literature has demonstrated that risk factors that contribute to unhealthy lifestyle behaviours …
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A Life without Gluten: Dietary Adherence, Physical Activity and Motives
… levels and the reasons why they engage in these lifestyle behaviours consistent with Organismic Integration Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002). Participants (N = 202; Mage = 42.35 years, SDage = 12.43 years) completed a series of online questionnaires. GFD adherence (74.7%) across the previous week was …
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The development and evaluation of an mHealth-delivered comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation programme
… through education, psychosocial support, and lifestyle behaviour change. The benefits of CR are clear yet participation rates are less than 50% worldwide. The reach of CR may be increased if people can choose to receive programmes delivered by mobile technologies (mHealth), as programmes could …
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DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF A THEORY-BASED MULTI-COMPONENT SCHOOL-BASED PILOT INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE DIETARY AND ACTIVITY BEHAVIOURS IN EARLY ADOLESCENTS
… window of opportunity for establishing healthy lifestyle habits, and habits formed during this period can carry over into adulthood. However, increasing evidence indicates that children and adolescents worldwide, including in Singapore, do not meet dietary and activity behaviour guidelines. …
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Killing time: the effect of boredom during unstructured leisure time on men's health
… men die earlier than married men. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as tobacco and alcohol use and physical inactivity vary by sex, age, and marital status and other sociodemographic factors and are strongly linked to the major causes of death. In combination with biological, demographic, …
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Psychological factors and physical outcomes in patients with chronic diseases of lifestyle
INTRODUCTION: Chronic diseases of lifestyle (CDL) are a major cause of global morbidity and mortality. Although CDL are largely preventable and treatable through adopting and maintaining healthy lifestyle behaviours, CDL rehabilitation programmes remain an underutilised resource. Behaviour …
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A tool to assess nutrition and physical intervention for school-aged children
… of studies that have investigated the health and lifestyle behaviours of school aged children, very little information exists about health and lifestyle behaviours of school age children in Trinidad and Tobago. Also, little information exists on the development of questionnaires to address health …
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Influencing Behaviour to Improve Diabetes Self-Management: The Design and Evaluation of Mobile Health Applications
… of blood glucose readings with personalized lifestyle behaviours. While a 12-month randomized controlled trial (RCT) was designed to evaluate the impact of bant2 on clinical outcomes, findings from recent studies led to reconsider both the intervention the evaluation approach. The bant RCT …
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Assessing the effectiveness of an obesity-prevention intervention to improve healthy lifestyle among Saudi school girls aged 9 to 16 : a feasibility study
… but the modifiable ones are dietary and activity behaviours. In order to accomplish this, it is vital to assess and evaluate whether an intervention to promote healthy lifestyle behaviours in school-age girls is effective in reducing their Body Mass Index (BMI). To measure the effect of such an …
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Aetiological role of early lifestyle exposures in puberty timing
… promote earlier puberty, it is unclear whether lifestyle behaviours are determinants of puberty timing. This thesis aimed to explore whether diet and physical activity in childhood are associated with puberty timing, using a combination of robust analytical approaches. First, to understand the …
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Breast cancer, medical imaging, and cancer genetics. A new genetic concept regarding the causes and prevention strategies of cancer is presented
… share certain environments and exposures or lifestyle behaviours. As a result, a new genetic concept of cancer essential to understand and control the disease is presented in this work which links between the human population origins and migrations, environmental factors and gene mutations, …
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Theory and evidence-based development and feasibility testing of a weight loss intervention (Health4LIFE) for overweight and obese primary school educators employed at public schools in low-income settings, Western Cape Province, South Africa
… ensuring that they model a healthy body size and lifestyle behaviours in their teaching environment. The United Kingdom (UK) Medical Research Council (MRC) state that best intervention development practice involves a systematic approach where best published research evidence and most suitable …
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A randomised controlled trial of a diet and physical activity intervention in prostate cancer patients and related studies.
… Hazardanalysis. None of the included lifestyle behaviours or body composition measurements had a statistically significant effect on prostate cancer risk.<br/><br/>A systematic review was also completed to determine if expression of the lipogenic enzyme Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS) …
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